£1m award for engineer keen to follow Brunel and Bazalgette

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Lord Browne of Madingley, who will oversee the prizeTimes photographer, Chris Harris

Mark HendersonScience Editor

Published at 12:01AM, November 17 2011

A £1 million international engineering award that aims to emulate the Nobel
prizes is to be named after the Queen in an initiative designed to raise the
profile of the discipline and celebrate its contribution to society.

The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, which will be announced by David
Cameron today, will be the richest award of its kind in the world, worth
nearly twice as much as the sum shared by Nobel laureates.

Nominations for the first prize will open in February, and it will be awarded
in the spring of 2013 to an engineering achievement that an international